Denise Brown is a Canadian Senior UN official and the current Head of the United Nations in Ukraine. She was appointed to this position on 28 July 2022. Prior to this appointment, she served as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG), Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Coordinator in the

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to Central African Republic–Chad border, the north, Sudan to Central African Republic–Sudan border, the northeast, South Sudan to Central ...

. Ms. Brown has held different leadership positions for the UN in the fields of humanitarian coordination, peacekeeping, emergency preparedness, and regional coordination, in both headquarters and field locations. Her work has covered Afghanistan, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Niger, and Somalia. She also served in headquarters and regional offices in Dakar, Rome, and New York.

Career

She began her career in the with non-governmental organizations in

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

and

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

, working in the social sector. World Food Programme Denise Brown joined the UN’s

World Food Programme The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and the leading provider of school meals. Founded in 1961 ...

in the late 1990s, serving in Iraq (1998-1999), Afghanistan (1999-2002), Kenya (2002-2007), and Somalia (2007-2009), and han Niger, during which she led discussions on humanitarian access with state and non-state actors, including Al Shabab in Somalia. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a Senior Liaison Officer with WFP in New York, and then, from 2013 to 2016, as WFP's Regional Director for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, covering 20 countries. From 2016 to 2019, she worked at World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome, first as Director of the Emergency Preparedness and then as Director of Policy and Programmes. UN Peacekeeping From April 2019 to July 2022, Ms. Brown served as Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), and as United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, where she reinforced the linkages between the peace and security, development, and humanitarian actions of the UN. In CAR, Ms. Brown led the coordination of both the UN’s COVID-19 response and the UN’s integrated electoral assistance for the 2020-21 presidential and legislative elections

Education

Denise Brown is a graduate of the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

and holds a Master’s of Science in Children’s Development from

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

References

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